Hi
It is good idea to run ELKS on top of another Host OS for teaching or
learning. (developing too).
Student does not need to have 2 box. They don't need to reboot to switch OS.
There are several products to have virtual 8086 PC.
Host OS: Linux, Win., Mac
Emulator: Vmware, Dosemu, Bochs
Also if it is Dosemu or Bochs (?), you can use ELKS via telnet or X-window
server.
Dosemu seems very light. Some student can share the server for ELKS virtual
machine.
Each student can have his own virtual ELKS.
Because you can use DosEmu via telnet, student's machine can be any stupid
box :-)
To build each evnironment for student can be very easy. Once you set up a
sample, you can just copy to for each student's home directory.
Because host OS is running Linux, you can build on it.
Is it a good idea???
Love
Setu
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> From: Mario Frasca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Kalogirou Harilaos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 12:28:08 +0100
> Subject: Re: VMware
>
>
> Hi Kalagirou,
>
> > I tried DOSEMU(ver 0.99.10)
> > but nothing, it stops while reading the boot disk with message
>
> You're running Redhat, too, aren't you? I've had this same problem with
> the dosemu 0.99.<something> coming with RH6.0. that is a development
> version, not necessarily a stable one. what I did was uninstalling it
> and downloading 0.98.8.0. now I start my dosmachine in a xterm like
> this:
> xtermdos [-A]
> (the -A is to boot it from a boot disk.)
>
> > I use ELKS kernel version 0.0.81
> > and Dev86 version 0.14.9
>
> this is exactly what I'm using, and it works as described above.
>
> hope this helps.
>
> Mario.
>
Thank you Mario,
meanwhile I found "bochs" an i386 emulator which runs fine.
I'll use that for the moment it seems to work ok if I exclude
some "@" appearing randomly at the bottom of the screen!
If more problems evolve I will switch to DOSEMU.
Harry
"Alegria Loinaz. Inaki" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a new participant in the list and after reading FAQs I have a couple
> of questions:
> - Is ELKS able to run executable programs from standard Linux?
> - Is possible with ELKS to read the File System in the hard disk (I
> suposse no, but I don�t know sure)
>
> I am looking for a simple OS to use teaching (modifying the kernel) and
> despite simplicity is very important, I'd like to be possible to load
> pre-compiled programs and to have a file system in hard disk.
>
> Is ELKS a good choice for this or it is better an old version of the Linux
> kernel?
>
> Thanks in advance
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> University of the Basque Country
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